Crossword clues for skim
skim
- Read through quickly
- Milk variety
- Fat-free milk
- Take a little off the top
- Read briefly
- 2% alternative
- 1% alternative
- ____ milk
- Two percent alternative
- Milk selection
- Milk label word, perhaps
- Go through quickly
- Alternative to 1%
- Read the highlights of
- Quickly read through
- Pass lightly over
- Pass lightly (over)
- Low-fat (milk)
- Glance through to get the main ideas
- Glance through to get the main points
- Dairy choice
- Dairy case option
- "Read" pages in nothing flat
- Word on some milk cartons
- Whole milk alternative
- What crooked manager will do off top?
- Touch the surface
- Take the cream
- Take something off the top
- Take money off the top
- Study quickly
- Scan quickly
- Remove top from
- Read through superficially
- Read through rapidly
- Read speedily
- Read in haste
- Quickly read
- Milk quality
- Milk carton specification
- Make quick work of
- Low-fat milk type
- Low-fat milk choice
- Low-fat milk
- Less than 1%, say
- It's less rich than the 1%
- It's healthier than whole
- Healthy milk choice
- Hardly study
- Give a cursory read
- Fat-free kind of milk
- Essentially fat-free
- Do some speed-reading
- Dieter's milk choice
- Dieter's milk
- Avoid taxes, in a way
- Alternative to 2% or whole milk
- Alternative to 2%
- Alternative to 2 percent milk
- Adjective on some milk cartons
- ___ milk (alternative to 2%)
- __ milk (fat-free drink)
- Low-fat, as milk
- Conceal profits illegally
- Take illegally
- Fat-free, as milk
- Look at the highlights
- Take from the top
- Take some off the top
- Dairy-case choice
- Go once over lightly
- Not fully digest
- Barely read
- Kind of milk, pre-reunion tour
- Alternative to whole or 2% milk
- Read cursorily
- Read on the run
- Read rapidly
- Rake
- Read over hurriedly
- Less than 1%?
- 0% fat, say
- Glance through quickly
- Not peruse
- Far from whole
- Milk option
- Take off the top
- 0%, in a way
- Take in just the highlights, say
- Give the once-over
- Reading or glancing through quickly
- Zip over the surface
- Hydroplane
- Glide; sail
- Glide along above a surface
- Remove cream from milk
- Pass over lightly
- Read casually
- Do a pool job
- Pass swiftly over
- Treat cursorily
- Ladle off
- Glide lightly over
- Milk type
- Quickly read second novel
- Winter sports accessory, without question, getting you to glide over the surface
- Read superficially
- Polar native lacks wings to make plane
- Bounce on water
- Bounce (a stone) on water
- Dieter's milk choice, perhaps
- Type of milk with no fat
- Read quickly, just to get the main points
- Glance over
- ___ milk (fat-free dairy choice)
- Scratch the surface
- Milk choice
- Like some milk
- Thumb through
- Read hastily
- Leaf through quickly
- Whole alternative
- Nonfat milk
- Take the top off
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skim \Skim\, a. Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.
Skim coat, the final or finishing coat of plaster.
Skim colter, a colter for paring off the surface of land.
Skim milk, skimmed milk; milk from which the cream has been taken.
Skim \Skim\, v. i.
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To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
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To hasten along with superficial attention.
They skim over a science in a very superficial survey.
--I. Watts. To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
Skim \Skim\ (sk[i^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skimmed (sk[i^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Skimming.] [Cf. Sw. skymma to darken.
To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
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To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
--Hazlitt. Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c. (skimmer, the utensil, is attested from late 14c.), "to clear (a liquid) from matter floating on the surface, lift the scum from," from Old French escumer "remove scum," from escume (Modern French écume) "scum," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German scum "scum," German Schaum; see scum). Meaning "to throw (a stone) so as to skip across the surface of (water) is from 1610s. Meaning "to move lightly and rapidly over the surface of" is from 1650s, from the motion involved in skimming liquid; that of "to glance over carelessly" (in reference to printed matter) recorded by 1799. Related: Skimmed; skimming.
Wiktionary
(context of milk English) Having lowered fat content. v
1 (context intransitive English) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface. 2 (context transitive English) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. 3 To hasten along with superficial attention. 4 To put on a finishing coat of plaster. 5 (context transitive English) to throw an object so it bounces on water (''skimming stones'') 6 (context intransitive English) to ricochet 7 (context transitive English) to read quickly, skipping some detail 8 (context transitive English) to scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface 9 (context transitive English) to clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface. 10 (context transitive English) to clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk
WordNet
v. travel on the surface of water [syn: plane]
move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of [syn: skim over]
examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, rake, glance over, run down]
cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" [syn: skip, skitter]
coat (a liquid) with a layer
remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk" [syn: skim off, cream off, cream]
read superficially [syn: skim over]
Wikipedia
Skim or skimming may refer to:
Skim is an open-source PDF reader. It is notably the first free software PDF reader for Mac OS X. It is written in Objective-C, and uses Cocoa APIs. It is released under a BSD license. It is also cited as being able to help annotate and read scientific papers.
Skim is a Canadian graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and drawn by Jillian Tamaki. Set in 1993, in a Toronto Catholic girls high school, it is about an outsider girl called Skim.
Usage examples of "skim".
The rival aeroplane was now skimming above the water at a height of about a thousand feet.
Nick picked up the agenda for 1979 and skimmed through the pages, finding the first referral to Goldluxe on March 13, 1979.
As he spoke he raised his arbalest to his shoulder and was about to pull the trigger, when a large gray stork flapped heavily into view skimming over the brow of the hill, and then soaring up into the air to pass the valley.
The further precaution that if any dross be on the surface of the metal it shall be skimmed off and separately sampled and assayed is almost too obvious to require mention.
These are fitted with attemperators, and parachutes for the removal of yeast, in much the same way as in the skimming system.
Rather, they had resigned themselves and their budlings to less than their share of the wonders of the modern world: houses that thought, scudders and floaters, falqon-mail that flew from continent to continent where pitchens had only skimmed, communications that no longer called for nervograps, recordimals offering faithful transcriptions of the greatest thinkers and entertainers, newsimals and scentimals and haulimals, and the rest.
It was no skin off his nose if the average cowhand worked his ass off for just a dollar a day and grub, only to get skimmed by everybody from those check cashers to the barkeeps who jacked up the price of bar liquor on a payday weekend.
In the beginning, the tax code skimmed only a small percentage off the incomes of the very top earners -- taxpayers rich enough that they had little incentive to avoid taxes.
First Councillor had altered his exoskeletal posture, skimming over to them like a swimmer.
It was wintertime clear enough, for there were no larks rising on the hills or swooping plovers--only big flocks of skimming grey fieldfares, and strings of honking geese passing south, and solemn congregations of bustards, and in the wet places clouds of squattering wildfowl.
It was running out of juice, skimming low, ruby flimmer reflected in rain-stippled puddles.
Her gaze skimmed over Darby, who was in a deep conversation with General Manager Clark Gamache, and landed on Luc where he leaned against the end of the bar, talking to a tall blond woman in a white slip dress.
Then she saw a long line of Canada geese, necks outstretched and wings flapping hard, skim the tops of the trees.
From being alone in the Void until your mind screams for contactfrom skimming whole planets with your thoughts, hungering for the touch of a familiar soul.
He skimmed over the episode of the Kebar Canal to get to the court session and his garden visit with Tamar.